Using KeymanWeb in Wikipedia

A month ago we blogged about our new KeymanWeb Wikipedia Plugin. Now you can use KeymanWeb to type in your native language anywhere in Wikipedia. That's right – without a specialised keyboard, you can edit pages,
search for information, or participate in discussions in over 200 languages, including languages like Amharic, Arabic, Hebrew, Mandarin, Russian, Tibetan, and Yoruba, to name just a few.

In this post, I would like to show you how to install and use the KeymanWeb Wikipedia Plugin.

First, you need to copy a line of code to your clipboard.

For English Wikipedia users, copy this importScript line:

importScript('User:Keymanweb/keymanweb.js');

For users of non-English Wikipedia sites, copy this importScriptURI line:importScriptURI('http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Keymanweb/keymanweb.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');

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